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9/3/2019 1 Bonnie Fine Jacobs Curriculum Vitae Address 9/3/2019 BONNIE FINE JACOBS CURRICULUM VITAE ADDRESS: Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences P.O. Box 750395 Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas 75275-0395 EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1983, Geosciences, University of Arizona. Past Vegetation and Climate of the Mogollon Rim Area, Arizona. M.S. 1978, Geosciences, University of Arizona. Vegetation and Modern Pollen Spectra in Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico. B.A. 1974, Geology/Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo. EMPLOYMENT: 2013 – Present. Professor, Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University. 2006 – 2013. Associate Professor, Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University. 2009 – 2010. Founding Director, SMU Center for the Environment, Southern Methodist University. 2000 – 2010. Director, Environmental Science Program; 2008 – 2010 founding Director Environmental Studies Program, Southern Methodist University. 2000 – 2006. Assistant Professor Southern Methodist University. 2001- Present. Research Associate Professor II of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University. 1995 - 2000. Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University. 1986 - 1995. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, Department of Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University. 1 9/3/2019 1985 – Present. Scientist, and Director of Palynology Laboratory, Southern Methodist University. 1984 - 2000. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University. 1983 - 1995. Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. 1981 - 1983. Palynologist, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. RESEARCH INTERESTS: The application of paleobotany and palynology to Cenozoic and Cretaceous geological and environmental problems. Research foci include the evolution of tropical African ecosystems, paleoclimate and paleoecological reconstruction, and historical biogeography in Africa and North America, within an integrated multidisciplinary framework. AWARDS AND HONORS: June, 2018. Elected a Fellow of the Paleontological Society. 2019 - 2022 – Co-PI, “Acquisition of an SEM with quantitative X-ray detectors to research Geology-Climate-Biology connections”. Rita Economos, Lead PI. $420,320. 2017 – 2018 Supplemental Funding for “Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, and climate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau”. $16,147. 2012 – 2016. National Science Foundation. “ IPG (Integrative Paleoanthropology Grant): Research on East African Catarrhine and Hominoid Evolution”. Senior Collaborator. Kieran McNulty, Laura MacLatchy, Dan Peppe PI’s. $1,000,000. 2014 – SMU University Research Council. $2500. 2013 – Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship. “Ford Fellowships are given to SMU faculty based on the significance of a faculty member’s scholarly contributions and future research plans.” $15,000. 2011 – 2014 (Current, No-cost extension expiring 7-31-18). National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, and climate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau”. SMU is Lead, Jacobs is Lead PI, $383,129 (SMU Budget, $173,995). 2 9/3/2019 2009 - 2010. National Science Foundation. Supplemental Funding for “A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry, and Paleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”, Lead, with Co-PI Neil Tabor. $21,628. 2006 – 2009. National Science Foundation. “A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry, and Paleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”, Lead, with Co-PI Neil Tabor. $300,505. 2006 – 2007. University Research Council, SMU. $3,000. 2005 – 2006. National Geographic Society, “Paleobotany and Isotope Geochemistry of the Oligocene Chilga Deposits of the Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”. $25,530. 2003 - 2006. National Science Foundation. “Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope for Multiple Use in Research and Education”, Lead, with Co-PIs Louis Jacobs and Radovan Kovacevic. $299,260. 2000 - 2003. National Science Foundation, “Eocene paleobotany and paleoecology of the Singida District, Tanzania”. Lead, $75,000. 1995 -1997. National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award, "The Interpretation of Climate from Leaf Form: Application to the Miocene of Africa." 1990. L.S.B. Leakey Foundation grant, "SEM Analysis of 6 My Old Grasses from Kenya.” PUBLICATIONS: Submitted: Currano, E.D., Jacobs, B.F., Bush, R.T., McInerney, F., Novello, A., Tabor, N.J., Strömberg, C.A.E. Paleoecology of the early Miocene Mush Valley Lagerstätte, Ethiopia. Paleobiology. 2019: *Friðgeir Grímsson, Graham, S.A., Coiro, M., Jacobs, B.F., Xafis, A., Neumann, F. H., Scott, L., Sakala, J., Currano, E. D., Zetter, R. Origin and divergence of Afro-Indian Picrodendraceae: linking pollen morphology, dispersal modes, fossil records, molecular dating and paleogeography. Grana 58(4): 227-275. 2019: Rasmussen, D., Friscia, A., Gutierrez, M., Kappelman, J., Miller, E., Muteti, S., Reynoso, D., Rossie, J., Spell, T., Tabor, N., Gierlowski-Kordesch, E., Jacobs, B., Kyongo, B., Macharwas, M., Muchemi, F. A primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid 3 9/3/2019 bilophodonty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815423116 2018 Grímsson, Friðgeir, Jacobs, Bonnie, van Valkenburg, Johan L.C.H., Wieringa, Jan J., Xafis, Alexandros, Tabor, Neil, Pan Aaron D., Zetter, Reinhard. Sclerosperma fossils from the late Oligocene of Chilga, north-western Ethiopia, Grana, DOI: 10.1080/00173134.2018.1510977. 2018 Grímsson, Friðgeir, van Valkenburg, Johan L.C.H., Wieringa, Jan J., Xafis, Alexandros, Jacobs, Bonnie, Zetter, Reinhard. Pollen morphology of the African Sclerosperma (Arecaceae), Grana, DOI: 10.1080/00173134.2018.1519033. 2017 Tesfamichael, T., Jacobs, B.F., Tabor, N., Michel, L., Currano, E., Feseha, M., Barclay, R., Kappelman, J., and Schmitz, M. Settling the issue of "decoupling" between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature: [CO2]atm reconstructions across the warming Paleogene-Neogene divide. Geology 45 (11): 999-1002. doi:10.1130/G39048.1. 2017 Bush, R., Wallace, J., Currano, E.D., Jacobs, B.F., McInerney, F.A., Dunn, R.E., Tabor, N.J. Leaf δ13C and cell anatomy reveal shading and canopy structure in a Miocene forest from Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 485: 593–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.07.015 2017 Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Wright, I.J., Dong, N., Maire, V., Prentice, I.C., Westoby, M., Díaz, S., Gallagher, R.V., Jacobs, B.F., Kooyman, R., Law, E.A., Leishman, M.R., Niinemets, U., Reich, P.B., Sack, L., Villar, R., Wang, H., Wilf, P. Science 357: 917–921. 2017 Sánchez Goñi, M.F. et al. The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 9: 679–695. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017 2017 Gulbranson, Erik L., Jacobs, B.F., Hockaday, W. C., Wiemann, M. C., Michel, L.A., Richards, K., and Kappelman, J.W. Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis inferred from stable isotope analysis of fossil tree rings, Oligocene, Ethiopia. Geology 45: 687-690. doi:10.1130/G39213.1. 2016 Xing, Yaowu, Maria A Gandolfo, Renske E Onstein, David J Cantrill, Bonnie F Jacobs, Gregory J Jordan, Svetlana Popova, Rashmi Srivastava, Sergey V Vikulin, Atsushi Yabe, and H.Peter Linder. Testing the biases in the rich Cenozoic angiosperm macrofossil record. International Journal of Plant Sciences 177: 371-388. 4 9/3/2019 2015 Engel, M., Currano, E., and Jacobs, B. The first mastotermitid termite from Africa (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae): A new species of Mastotermes from the early Miocene of Ethiopia. Journal of Paleontology 89: 1038-1042. 2015 Colleary, C., Dolocan, A., Gardner, J., Singh, S., Wuttke, M., Rabenstein, R., Habersetzer, J., Schaal, S., Feseha, M., Clemens, M., Jacobs, B., Currano, E.D., Jacobs, L.L., Lyng Sylvestersen, R., Gabbott, S.E., and Vinther, J. Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils. PNAS 112: 12592–12597. 2014 Pan, A., Jacobs. B.F., and Currano, E.D. Dioscoreaceae fossils from the late Oligocene and early Miocene of Ethiopia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 175: 17-28. 2013 Engel, M., Pan, A.D. and Jacobs, B.F. A termite from the Late Oligocene of northern Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58: 331–334. 2012 Le Page, B., Jacobs, B.F., and Williams, C. Insights from Paleohistory Illuminate Future Climate Change Effects on Wetlands. In: B.A. Middleton (ed.), Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands, pp. 3 -59. Global Change Ecology and Wetlands 1, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4494-3_1, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2012 Pan, A.D., Currano, E., Jacobs, B.F., Feseha, M., Tabor, N., and Herendeen, P.S. Fossil Newtonia (Fabaceae: Mimoseae) seeds from the early Miocene (22 – 21 Ma) Mush Valley in Ethiopia. International Journal of Plant Sciences (Cover Article) 173: 290-296. 2011 Currano, E., Jacobs, B.F., Pan, A.D. and Tabor, N.J. Inferring ecological disturbance in the fossil record: A case study from the late Oligocene of Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 309: 242–252. 2011
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